The recent ruckus about the claimed growing vulnerability of Mac OSX from certain sources has caused an indignant outcry from Mac advocates who claim the stories are mostly media hype. According to an expert in Unix and Linux systems, the outcry is not without justification. Con Zymaris has been working with Unix systems for nearly three decades and for the past 15 years has been running a consultancy on open source software implementation. Zymaris says that, while it is true that a Mac can get infected with a virus, it is not easy and it is not likely to cause much damage. What's more, Mac users don't need to install firewalls and anti-virus software.
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Also, if you have a firewall between you and your internet connection, there's no need for EVERY computer to have one.
Well, I'm sorry but I don't agree because if you don't use a firewall per host then you'll someday have troubles on your LAN...
A so-called admin in the company I work for told me exactly the same thing and it wasn't hard to prove him wrong. Consider the fact that we have laptop users who work from their home or wherever they want, once they get a virus/trojan/spyware/you name it and that the laptop is plugged on the LAN again, then the firewall at the "entrance" of the LAN won't protect ANY of the other hosts on the LAN. Firewall is a must have for EVERY host that's connected onto a network, it's that simple ! Do you think it's by coicidence that EVERY major OSes provide a firewall?
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Is there even any anti-virus software for OS X (that doesn't just deal with Windows viruses?)
Also, if you have a firewall between you and your internet connection, there's no need for EVERY computer to have one.